Biomorphic Art
![Image of a square hotel in Macau built with a white exoskeleton, pierced three times in the center to create walkways enveloped in the same exoskeleton material. A modern city and streets surround the hotel.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Biomorphic-Hotel-Macau-by-Zaha-Hadid-580x744.jpg)
When the weather turns warm, I love to look outside for inspiration in my work. Artists who utilize natural forms always catch my eye.
Biomorphic forms are the most perfect forms and shapes drawn from nature. They are balanced physically and mathematically, created by nature, so they will naturally be the forms most pleasing to the eye and senses. Architects, designers and artists gain inspiration from these shapes and colors, to make their work more attractive. One such artist is @javiersenosiaina on Instagram. Just look at these beautiful shapes!
![Image Nido De Quetzalcoatl courtesy @javiersenosiaina on Instagram. A left wall in a stone tunnel of sparkling mosaic pieces form tall waves or flickering candles, with a sun in the middle near the ceiling. The colors are mostly midnight blue, with sky blue, orange, yellow, gold, and black. The stone is a light tan color.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Art-javiersenosiaina-Nido-De-Quetzalcoatl-580x865.jpg)
I imagine the artist carefully placing each tile as he builds up the pattern, while the sun moves across the sky and changes the reflections and shadows.
![Image Interior-Nautilus courtesy Instagram's @javiersenosiaina. A playful, rounded interior space with a yellow built-in sunken seating area at the center is surrounded by green grass. A stone path leads away, past a wall of colorful round stained glass windows like a mosaic, and past a bubble-like shape at the center of the space. The finish of the walls is like hand-made pottery. Plants are growing playfully through holes in the edge of the floor and wall. No right angles, only soft flowing curves.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Art-javiersenosiaina-Interior-Nautilus-1-580x872.jpg)
Here I’m reminded of the Nautilus in Dr. Doolittle, appropriate since it’s modeled on a real-life nautilus shell, which displays its internal chambers arranged in an approximately logarithmic spiral, related to the Fibonacci sequence.
![Image Casa Orgánica-Ducha courtesy @javiersenosiaina on Instagram. The photo is of a cave, with a hole in the center of the ceiling where light pours in, and strikes a glass mosaic pool of mostly green with blue and black accents. An off-white shape to the left provides water through its tube-with-a-mouth-like shape. The rest of the space is veiled in darkness.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Shapes_javiersenosiaina-Casa-Orgánica-Ducha-580x574.jpg)
This view makes me think of serendipity – finding something unexpected along a journey.
![The Wangjing Soho building looks like 3 tall pebbles balanced against each other to stand, with bold lines of windows looking like layers of rock or sediment. The building is surrounded by greenery at the bottom, and a blue sky above.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Art-Wangjing-Soho-by-Zaha-Hadid-580x414.jpg)
Another artist who’s famous for her curvaceous shapes is Zaha Hadid. While we sadly lost her in 2016, her amazing work remains to inspire us, like the Wangjing Soho towers in Beijing, curved to look like giant pebbles.
![A sexy, curvilicious shaped building rests lightly on a ground of shiny stones, outlined against a soft blue sky. The building itself is white, with black accent lines showing off the curves and hidden surfaces of the windows.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Art-Heydar-Aliyev-Center-Baku-by-Zaha-Hadid-580x293.jpg)
Her work for the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku won the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award in 2014, embodying Hadid’s signature, voluptuous design.
![Image Al Wakrah Stadium courtesy Dezeen, the building is a series of stepped surfaces clad in white that cast light shadows like a ripple.](https://kimballstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kimball-Starr-Interior-Design_Natural-Art-Al-Wakrah-Stadium-by-Zaha-Hadid-580x423.jpg)
The Al Wakrah stadium’s shape is an abstraction of a line of up-turned dhows – traditional boats that can be seen in Al Wakrah’s port in Qatar. The internal structure of the roof was also designed by Hadid to reflect the form of the boats, which is also reminiscent of sand dunes, formed by the wind. I can’t think of a more beautiful profile for a building.
If YOU have a project inspired by biomorphic forms that you want to realize, get in touch with Kimball Starr today!